Nikolai Grandkovsky

Nikolai Karlovich Grandkovsky (Russian: Николай Карлович Грандковский; 23 February 1864, Saratov - 18 May 1907, Penza) was a Russian Realist painter who specialized in portraits and genre scenes.

After taking private lessons from Mikhail Ivanovich Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1841-1881), and receiving his recommendation, Grandkovsky obtained a government grant and was enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1880.

[1] During his studies, his drawings received two silver medals from the Imperial Academy of Arts.

In 1891, he began to exhibit with the Peredvizhniki and, the following year, became a member of the "Moscow Society of Art Lovers".

Shortly after his death, the college held a major retrospective of his works.